using embedded Google Maps to automatically geocode blog postings

An idea (for someone else to implement).

Now that you can embed Google Maps into blog entries, it should be possible for whoever is doing blog search tools to parse those embedded links for geography and then auto-code those blog entries geographically. E.g. if you post a map with a piece of downtown Ann Arbor in it, it should be automatically geo-tagged (either by the blog authoring software or by the blog search engine or by a feed management tool as belonging to that geographical area.

This idea affects sites like outside.in , topix.net , and Feedburner , and would likely be implemented on the feed side as a GeoRSS based extension.

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Comments

[Andrew Turner]

This is the point behind GeoPress (http://georss.org/geopress) which lets you embed a Map (google, yahoo, microsoft etc.), GeoRSS, KML syndication.

And also the purpose for Mapufacture (http://www.mapufacture.com/), which geotags (if necessary) and aggregates RSS, KML, GeoRSS, etc.

Unfortunately, systems like FeedBurner pull off these additional tags, and none of the major 'RSS' readers show geotags. Which is rather silly.